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PENNY wise and pound foolish
1607Four-footed Beasts
609
If by couetousnesse or negligence, one withdraw from them their ordinary foode, he shall be penny wise, and pound foolish.
1712
Spectator
7 Feb.
I think a Woman who will give up herself to a Man in Marriage, where there is the least room for such an Apprehension .. may very properly be accused .. of being Penny wise and Pound foolish.
1864
Trevlyn Hold
II. xxi.
He never would insure his ricks… Miss Diana has often told him he deserved to have his ricks take fire for being penny wise and pound foolish.
1973
Honorary Consul
II
. i.
It's only a bachelor's digs… No sense of national pride. Penny wise, pound foolish.
meanness;
stupidity
penny
Like PEOPLE, like priest
With allusion to
HOSEA
iv. 9 (AV) Like people, like priest.
1589
Pasquil's Return
C3
Like people, like Priest begins now to be verified.
1670
English Proverbs
114
Like priest, like people… Always taken in the worse sense.
1893
English Peasant
IV
. iii.
He had so deep a reverence for the clergy, that it never entered into his mind that perhaps, after all, it was ‘like people, like priest.’
similarity and dissimilarity
HOSEA
iv. 9 (AV) Like people, like priest.
1589Pasquil's Return
C3
Like people, like Priest begins now to be verified.
1670
English Proverbs
114
Like priest, like people… Always taken in the worse sense.
1893
English Peasant
IV
. iii.
He had so deep a reverence for the clergy, that it never entered into his mind that perhaps, after all, it was ‘like people, like priest.’
similarity and dissimilarity
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